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To: TC Rider

Or Dan's liberal, activist daughter.


4 posted on 09/13/2004 4:54:12 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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Folks,

We are helping Rather. He's going public saying things like "we have shown the documents indeed *could* have been created in 1972, that the criticism that they are impossible is wrong."

THAT is not the correct configuration. That is reversing the burden of proof. Journalists are obligated to do the necessary research to ensure that the documents MUST have been from 1972, not could have been. They are supposed to have proven a priori that the documents absolutely and unequivocally MUST be genuine before airing them. Not just ask around and find someone to say they might be.

This is pathetic. All the work Freepers are doing looking to find "impossibilities" is not well directed. What should be happening is demonstrating that it is far more probable that they are forged than that they are not. If you do that Rather's defense of "could have been" falls apart. Go for probabilities, not possibilities. Make him address probabilities, not possibilities.


11 posted on 09/13/2004 4:59:59 PM PDT by Owen
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To: MizSterious

My goodness..... Dan has children
When does this youngster work? I assume it is some liberal outfit...ACLU perhaps?


29 posted on 09/13/2004 5:12:50 PM PDT by pointsal
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